cht's personal ideologies, which were strongly influenced by Marxist theory.
             "As I read Das Kapital by Karl Marx, I understood my dreams. I want a wider public for this book. I did not suddenly discover that I had written a whole collection of Marxist drama without knowing it, but Marx was the only audience I had come across in dramas. A man of his interests would have been interested in such plays. Not because they are brilliant, but because he was."
             "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" has an epic structure. It is a collection of independent incidents which, when put together, show a process taking place. Each individual incident focuses on a particular sociopolitical lesson. This particular extract serves to teach the audience that the wealthy are not always right – that in fact, the underprivileged poor people are often the most honest people of our society. It serves to reinforce the notion that people can not be judged by their class and that to give preferential treatment to wealthy people or to discriminate against poor people should not be accepted or tolerated by our society.
             Brecht emphasised the past in order to place the present in perspective. By seeing the present through the past, the present offered alternatives for positive actio
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